Box Office Report: 3rd August 2017

This week will witness one of the most anticipated release(s) of thesecond half of the year, Imtiaz Ali’s Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma starrerJAB HARRY MET SEJAL. The other film slated for release is JAR Picture’s noirthriller, GURGAON starring Akshay Oberoi, Ragini Khanna and Pankaj Tripathi.Needless to add that the front runner by a long margin will be JHMJ, which islikely to embark on a good start, both in India and overseas.

Checking out the premier release of last week, Anees Bazmee’s Anil-ArjunKapoor starrer MUBARAKAN, after a decent opening day the film picked upbeautifully peaking on Sunday netting 23-24 crore during its opening week fromIndia, which given the current box-office scenario, is quite praiseworthy.Having said that, the film will have to give way to SRK’s JAB HARRY MET SEJALwhich would definitely hamper its prospects and so it will not be able toachieve its full potential. MUBARAKAN is alright in the overseas grossing $1.35with £105,000 from UK and $310,000 from the US, during the opening weekend(28-30 July).

The other releases of the same week, Madhur Bhandarkar directed INDUSARKAR, Tigmanshu Dhulia’s RAAG DESH and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures’ BAARAT COMPANY,failed to impress at the ticket counter, despite the first two mentioned filmsgetting some good reviews.

Concluding with Boney Kapoor’s Sridevi , Akshaye Khanna and Nawazuddin starrerMOM, the film added another 2 crore plus, thus netting 35 crore in three weeksfrom India and is a below average fare after accounting for the non-theatricalrights.